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Author:

Coe, Michael D., author.

Title:

The Maya / Michael D. Coe, Stephen Houston.

Edition:

Ninth edition.

Publisher:

Thames & Hudson,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

320 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Mayas--Antiquities.
Indians of Mexico--Antiquities.
Indians of Central America--Antiquities.
Mexico--Antiquities.
Central America--Antiquities.
Mayas--Antiquities.

Other Authors:

Houston, Stephen D., author.

Notes:

"213 illustrations, 28 in color." Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-313) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : The setting ; Natural resources ; Areas ; Periods ; Peoples and languages ; Climate change and its cultural impact -- The earliest Maya : Early hunters ; Archaic collectors and cultivators ; Early Preclassic villages ; The Middle Preclassic expansion ; Preclassic Kaminaljuyu ; The Maya lowlands -- The rise of Maya civilization : The birth of the calendar ; The Hero Twins and the creation of the world ; Izapa and the Pacific Coast ; Kaminaljuyu and the Maya highlands ; The Peten and the Maya lowlands ; The Mirador Basin ; San Bartolo ; From Preclassic to Classic in the Maya lowlands -- Classic splendor: the Early Period : Teotihuacan: military giant ; The Esperanza culture ; Cerén: a New World Pompeii? ; Tzakol culture in the central area ; Copan in the Early Classic ; The northern area -- Classic splendor: the Late Period : Classic sites in the central area ; Copan and Quirigua ; Tikal ; Calakmul ; Yaxchilan, Piedras Negras, and Bonampak ; The Petexbatun ; Palenque ; Comalcalco and Tonina ; Classic sites in the northern area: Rio Bec, Chenes, and Coba ; Art of the late classic -- The terminal classic : The great collapse ; Ceibal and the Putun Maya ; Puuk sites in the northern area ; The terminal classic at Chichen Itza ; Ek' Bahlam ; The Cotzumalhuapa problem ; The end of an era -- The Post-Classic : The Toltec invasion and Chichen Itza ; The Itza and the city of Mayapan ; The independent states of Yucatan ; The central area in the Post-Classic ; Maya-Mexican dynasties in the southern area ; The Spanish Conquest -- Maya life on the eve of the conquest : The farm and the chase ; Industry and commerce ; The life cycle ; Society and politics -- Maya thought and culture : The universe and the gods ; The earth and the gods ; The Classic Maya Underworld ; Rites and ritual practitioners ; Numbers and the calendar ; The sun and the moon ; The celestial wanderers and the stars ; The nature of Maya writing ; History graven in stone ; Maya superstates ; History and the supernatural ; Name-tagging ; Spiritual alter-egos -- The enduring Maya : The new Spanish order ; The highland Maya, yesterday and today ; The Tzotzil Maya of Zinacantan ; The Yucatec Maya ; The War of the Castes ; The Maya of Chan K'om ; The Lakandon ; Uprising in Chiapas ; The great terror ; The Maya future -- Visiting the Maya area -- Dynastic rulers of classic Maya cities.

Series:

Ancient peoples and places

ISBN:

9780500291887
0500291888

OCLC:

(OCoLC)911848911

Locations:

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

DMPC403 -- Montgomery Memorial Library (Jewell)

OPAX566 -- Southeastern Community College - Keokuk - Fred Karre Memorial Library (Keokuk)

GLAX641 -- Marshalltown Community College Library (Marshalltown)

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)